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Description
Shoulder Height: 40 cm, Mass: up to 13 kg, Gestation: 60 days, up to 6 pups
The black-backed jackal is a handsome species that accurs throughout southern Africa. The distinctive cry is well known and it communicates with an elaborate vocabulary. Mainly nocturnal, it is cunning and swift or in pairs. Large numbers will congregate at a carcass. It is cunning and swift and will wait in the wings for lions to finish eating, often darting in to snatch a morsel. During the day it rests up under low bushes. The young are born in abandoned antbear holes. Sight, sense of smell and hearing are acute. It is preyed upon by leopard, which have a preference for canine meat; large eagles will also take young pups.
Diet
Carrion, rodents, reptiles, gamebirds, insects, eggs, fruit and hares. Hunts young antelope and will prey on small, young livestock. Drinks water regularly.
Faeces
Small, dog-like appearance
Spoor: Neat, small, dog-like tracks
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